Ability to parse more than markdown file for links?

[miklb]

Might be a vague title, not sure how to phrase. Basically I'd like to add a conditional to my _includes/post.html file to check if some Front Matter exists, and if so, add a link to brid.gy.

If you can give an idea of how, I'd be happy to attempt to provide a pull request, just not that familiar with Ruby/Jekyll internals.

Longer explanation, I'm working through a micropub endpoint and want to test type of post to determine whether to POSSE based on Front Matter, specifically a syndicate-to link provided via micropub.

[aarongustafson]

So, just to be clear, you want to be able to ping other URLs stored in the front-matter (in addition to those contained in the content of the post). Is that right? If so, it should not be too difficult.

[miklb]

@aarongustafson that would be an interesting approach, but what I'd like to do is

{% if post.mf-syndicate-to != null %}
    <a href="https://brid.gy/publish/twitter"></a>
    {% endif %}

As I mentioned, I'm using a micropub client that I can define a syndicate-to link, which then produces

mf-syndicate-to:
  - 'http:/twitter.com/miklb'

Could be Facebook or some other silo I could POSSE to. Eventually the logic in that Liquid markup could be a check to determine what the syndicate-to links is and send the appropriate webmention via brid.gy

All of that said, if using Front Matter is easier, I could use the brid.gy endpoints, i.e. brid.gy/publish/twitter at least in the short term. I could see how Front Matter links could be useful for others when it comes to webmentions in general too.

Thanks again for your time to respond!

[miklb]

I'm sure you're busy, but any chance you could give me some pointers on how to parse links in Front Matter to be included in the in webmentions sent cache file?

[miklb]

I've gotten as far as

if post.data['mf-syndicate-to']
            targets.push ('https://brid.gy/publish/twitter')
          end

Where mf-syndicate-to is Front Matter set by my micropub client. What I haven't figured out is how to check the value of it, or ideally I think now would be to check if set, then iterate over any values and send webmentions

Hoping when you have a few free minutes can give some pointers. Thanks in advance @aarongustafson

[miklb]

Was making it harder on myself than I needed to.

if post.data['mf-syndicate-to']
            targets.push (post.data['mf-syndicate-to'])
          end

Was all I needed to parse the links in the front matter & send them with the plugin. I also had to do a little liquid conditional to embed the link in my template for Bridgy to pick it up.

Sorry for all of the noise on the thread, but considering this resolved. Not sure if you would entertain a pull request adding the functionality as I don't know how standard mf-syndicate-to would be.

[miklb]

Ran into a problem.

My Front Matter is formatted as such

mf-syndicate-to:
  - 'https://brid.gy/publish/twitter'

which is causing the plugin to parse the - or add one. In my webmentions.yml file it gets added as
- - https://brid.gy/publish/twitter which then isn't sent as a webmention.

Any suggestions?

[miklb]

OK, finally figured it all out

if post.data['mf-syndicate-to']
            all_links = post.data['mf-syndicate-to']
            all_links.each do |link|
                targets.push ("#{link}")
            end
          end

will loop through links in the front matter and properly insert them in the cache file.

Leaving this here if anyone comes along and wants to modify the plugin similarly.